On D-Day, which beach did 15,000 Canadian troops capture from the German Army?

Discover Canada records D-Day in detail. The guide writes: In the epic invasion of Normandy in northern France on June 6, 1944, known as D-Day, 15,000 Canadian troops stormed and captured Juno Beach from the German Army, a great national achievement shown in this painting by Orville Fisher. The beach the test wants is therefore Juno Beach, captured by 15,000 Canadian troops on June 6, 1944.

Two more facts in the same passage put the Canadian role in scale. Discover Canada writes: "Approximately one in ten Allied soldiers on D-Day was Canadian." So out of every ten Allied soldiers landing in Normandy, one was Canadian — a striking proportion for a country of about 11.5 million at the time. The result is the second fact: "The Canadian Army liberated the Netherlands in 1944–45 and helped force the German surrender of May 8, 1945, bringing to an end six years of war in Europe."

Juno Beach also fits a wider arc Discover Canada describes for Canadian ground forces in Europe. The guide says: "In order to defeat Nazism and Fascism, the Allies invaded Nazi-occupied Europe. Canadians took part in the liberation of Italy in 1943–44." Then came D-Day in June 1944, then the Netherlands liberation, then German surrender on May 8, 1945. Juno Beach is the centrepiece of that sequence.

The naval and overall war framing is also in Discover Canada. By the end of the Second World War, "Canada had the third-largest navy in the world," and "more than one million Canadians and Newfoundlanders... served in the Second World War, out of a population of 11.5 million." Juno Beach is one of the most-quoted Canadian moments inside that bigger story.

The question is testing whether new citizens can match D-Day with the specific beach Discover Canada attaches to Canadian forces. The guide names exactly one — Juno Beach — and pairs it with three more facts in the same sentence: 15,000 Canadian troops, the German Army, and June 6, 1944.

The wrong answer choices are real D-Day beaches but were not the Canadian objective in Discover Canada's account. The guide names only Juno Beach for Canadian forces; the other beaches do not appear in this passage at all.